We live on a quiet street in a beautiful small country town
on the Mid North Coast of NSW. So I decide T1 and I will start off in the
street to do the basics.
Did I mention that I have a manual car? I love manual cars
except when I’m in a city and then they drive me insane. I love the control a manual
gives you. I have just forgotten how much I hated, at 27 years old, learning
how to drive one after having driven an automatic all of my life. My sons have
no choice as we only have manual cars.
I realise as we sit in the car that I have also forgotten
how to actually drive one. Which side is the clutch on? Is the brake the middle
pedal? I also kept forgetting the word clutch. Driving becomes so natural once
you know how to do it that you actually forget how to do it. Does that make
senses?
My memory comes back and I tell T1 what he needs to do. Of
course we stall a few times and then a person starts walking down the road and
he is looking worried. At this point I decide I need to drive to the high school
car park to start the lesson. It is school holidays so we have it to ourselves.
I wonder what the neighbouring houses think about this car
coming twice a day? So we start again and learn how to actually get moving without
stalling. Luckily I am not too precious about my car. I see my car as a tool to
get from A to B. Although I do love the Jeep ads, especially since I bought my
Jeep before the ads came out. There are not too many things we can run into
except for the huge gas tank. I definitely want to avoid that one. So we move
from the back car park to the front car park a few times in first gear. We stop
and start, we stall and bunny hop, and eventually we do this smoothly. Then we
make the huge leap into second gear and 20 kms an hour, I feel like we are
driving on the wild side.
The half hour lessons ends.
Then it begins all over again. Please reread the above. As
the lesson was identical
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